atcurtis wrote: is there an Acorn fan/user group in the San Francisco bay area? I'm in the south bay area.

No idea if there's an official group, although I imagine if we keep mentioning SF on Stardot, more of us Bay Area folks will come out of the woodwork!

I'm in San Jose. It would be great to get a Acorn & BBC micro User Group going in the USA (assuming there isn't already)! On the STH map there are 4 of us pinned in SF Bay Area (also in Portland, Seattle on the West coast)... hopefully more will emerge...

atcurtis wrote:I think exhibiting Acorn computers would be a great idea since so few Americans even know of their existence.

myelin wrote:Sounds like an excellent idea! I'd love to bring some of my expansion hardware (mainly for Electrons) along to VCF West next year.

Great! I’ve sent a mail to VCF, I will let you know when they respond. Electron stuff for sure! I have an A3000 I could bring but would love a 'proper' Archimedes to show. Of course the Beeb should be represented too.

Good news! SF Bay Acorn users are invited to exhibit at VCF West next year!

This year was excellent. Tons of vintage machines (Atari, Apple, Commodore, IMSAI, etc), talks from the likes of Chuck Peddle (designer of the 6502, Commodore PET...). But not too many Acorn / British computers represented in the exhibit, it being in the US. http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-c ... ival-west/

Next year we can represent with some Acorn machines, and hopefully inspire others to join our ranks

It's not until 4-5 Aug 2018... so we have plenty of time to get organized...

Any other Acorn Users in the SF Bay / West Coast let us know if you want to be involved. Once there is enough of us we can do some events of our own...

8bitkick wrote:Thanks for the offer Lion - BBC Master + PVM sounds like a good combo. Do you have any peripherals / games / demos to run on it?

Yes, lots. It has a DataCenter in it loaded with every piece of beeb software I know of. Plenty of music, at least one rolling demo, probably *all* games. I also have 5.25 and 3.5" floppy drives. It's also fitted with a PiTubeDirect co-pro.

I also have an Econet Clock sitting in a drawer. I've never even tried using it, but my A3020 has a fileserver installed on it, in case anyone wants to try to get an actual Econet going? Might take a bit of hacking.

I'm (very slowly) putting together an Econet, although I don't have any original equipment so I'm doing it with my own designs (http://myelin.nz/acorn/ecohub etc). If I can get that working, we can swap in your original clock and give it a try!

I could probably fill up a whole table if I brought more than one machine... would need to dig up another screen from somewhere though. I feel like half a table (4' width) would probably be nicer though.

What are we aiming for here? One of each machine? Lots so people can play with them?

myelin wrote:I could probably fill up a whole table if I brought more than one machine... would need to dig up another screen from somewhere though. I feel like half a table (4' width) would probably be nicer though.

What are we aiming for here? One of each machine? Lots so people can play with them?

1x usable machine from us each plus peripherals / historical notes sounds like a good start.

But we can just measure up what we want to exhibit, request the space and see what they say ! (I will do this with my machines when I can and send photo.

Depends how big the tables are, but if you're interested in the TAM, I can bring that, my BBC Master, and my Acorn A3020 as well. That would probably fill a table. If we're short on space I can drop the A3020, it's the least interesting.

Been suggesing to the wife the next ime we go o US to go to SF (she has been before and already done the sites, hey let her out of Alcatraz) I will have to make sure any furture holidays coincide when some of you are displaying at a retro show, completely by coincidence of course.

Elminster wrote:Been suggesing to the wife the next ime we go o US to go to SF (she has been before and already done the sites, hey let her out of Alcatraz) I will have to make sure any furture holidays coincide when some of you are displaying at a retro show, completely by coincidence of course.

Alas ours is only an event 4-5 August but it's inside the permanent Computer History Museum (near the Google campus) which is well worth visiting...